Performance

PainKiller: Test02 ‘Human-Extension’

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By Thongchai Pimapunsri and Laphonphat Doungploy (QuackLab / DuckUnit)

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PainKiller returns with  a new test. One that turns “collective pain” into a space for physical and emotional realm. This is an investigation into how politics, society, and power embed themselves into our bodies and sensations. A pain that numbs us, sinking deep under the pressure of social systems.

PainKiller Test02: Human-Extension is the third performance in the PainKiller series, developed from versions 01 and 1.5: PainGround. This time, participants are invited to explore even deeper. To look beyond pain as just a feeling, and begin to see it as something shaped, handed down, planted without permission—or sometimes with full awareness, yet we still choose to carry it.

Because pain doesn’t belong to you alone.
It may belong to your neighbor.
To a stranger.
To all of us.
A pain rooted in the past,
buried in silence,
woven into the fabric of this society.

This performance by ‘Thongchai Pimapunsri (Mack)’ and ‘Laphonphat Duongploy (Nose)’ blends live performance, projection, and participant-generated data to construct a tactile landscape of pain through body and physicality that invite us to encounter and feel, together.

Do we still feel?
Have we grown numb to the injustices in society?
How much pain can we still hold?
…or are we simply bruised beyond caring?

**This project is accessible to non-Thai audiences, with English surtitles and guidance available.
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Ready to face the pain? 6 shows only! 

September 19–21, 2025
September 26–28, 2025
7.30–9.00 PM
at Studio, 4th Floor, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC)

Early Bird: 500 THB (before September 1, 2025)
Regular: 600 THB
≤Undergrad Student Price: 400 THB
And super special! A bundle ticket for 2 performances in the PAP14 program, together with ด้วยความอคติและเกลียดชัง (With Pessimistic and Hateful): 1,000 THB

Get your ticket at: https://tally.so/r/w4YxBr 
Or message us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThePainKillerProject
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Directed and designed by: Thongchai Pimapunsri & Laphonphat Duongploy (DuckUnit / QuackLab)
Dramaturg: Pathipon (Miss Oat)
Producer: Naruebet Jaksusuwan
Project Manager: Komkrit Malee
Public Relations: Thatsika Singtui & Thanyathorn Khunapinyo
Technical Coordinator: Montira Jamsri
Performance Consultant: Pornpan Arayaveerasid